Not that I'm trying to defend what is sure to be a real stinker of a movie, but I would think it is a nuclear waste pool, maybe? Water is a great insulator against radiation, to the point that supposedly you could swim in a pool at the top with spent fuel at the bottom, and you would receive less radiation than just walking on the sidewalk on a sunny day.

Shadowknight:Not that I'm trying to defend what is sure to be a real stinker of a movie, but I would think it is a nuclear waste pool, maybe? Water is a great insulator against radiation, to the point that supposedly you could swim in a pool at the top with spent fuel at the bottom, and you would receive less radiation than just walking on the sidewalk on a sunny day.

Nobody had better tell this to the guys who do Mythbusters. They're absolutely positive that everything portrayed in a movie or a commercial is being portrayed as a real event., The show would go off the air if someone told them movies weren't real.

I saw it yesterday, it's not great, but it's not as bad as Live Free, and not as bad as most critics are making it out to be. As has already been pointed out, he was jumping around on the wings of planes in the last one. so pretty much anything is a step up from the last one. I was entertained by the car chase.

The bad guys waving around some device to make the radiation just magically go away was pretty ridiculous, though.

Honestly, while they all have their moments, none of the Die Hard sequels are very good movies.

thatguyoverthere70:I saw it yesterday, it's not great, but it's not as bad as Live Free, and not as bad as most critics are making it out to be. As has already been pointed out, he was jumping around on the wings of planes in the last one. so pretty much anything is a step up from the last one. I was entertained by the car chase.

The bad guys waving around some device to make the radiation just magically go away was pretty ridiculous, though.

Honestly, while they all have their moments, none of the Die Hard sequels are very good movies.

The author neglected to discuss the symbolism of Terry Bradshaw and Mel Tillis hiding the Hawaiian Tropic car in the swimming pool at the beginning of Cannonball Run. The only thing that did was make it purty. It wasn't running worth a shiat, and it was wet.

Englebert Slaptyback:At least it got Timothy Olyphant into 'Hitman' and 'Justified', so we've got that going for us... which is nice. Obviously his small role in 'Rock Star' wasn't going to be very helpful.

He was also the not-black detective in the "Gone in 60 Seconds" remake with Nicolas Cage.

Saw this last night and while I knew it was going to be an over the top action movie, it felt like just generic action movie with the die hard label and Bruce Willis. I wasn't expecting it to be plot driven or interesting like the first one but this one was just bland comic bullshiat. Movie was only 1 1/2 hrs long yet felt longer than all the Lord of the rings extended editions combined.

orclover:Showing my 9 year old son Die Hard 1 right now. Getting a kick. Cops are about to raid Nakatomi Plaza!

I don't have kids and I hope I never will. But one thing I am missing out on is showing Die Hard to my son. It should be a tradition. The new equivalent of taking him out into the backyard with a ball and glove and playing catch with him. If they remade Field of Dreams, it would be about a farmer who lamented not watching Die Hard with his father. Then he hears a voice telling him to build Nakatomi Plaza in his cornfield. After he does that, the ghost of Alexander Gudunov shows up in his cornfield. They reenact scenes from the movie. The voice then instructs the farmer to drive cross country to find Hart "Ellis" Bochner to ease his pain that his directing career never took off, even though PCU was kinda funny. The movie ends when the ghost of the father shows up. "Dad," the farmer says, getting choked up, "would you like to watch Die Hard?" The father replies "I'd like that."

My wive came home a few nights ago and proudly proclaimed "I picked up a new Blu-Ray player on the cheap." I pointed out that we don't own any Blu-Ray discs nor needed a new DVD player as the old one worked fine.

20 minutes later, she asked the boys if they were ready to watch a movie....and promptly pulled out a box set of the "Die Hard" movies. Now I know why she got the Blu-Ray player.

/i think it was a blu-ray set...//not sure, was more agitated we bought something to replace nothing needed.

toetag:My wive came home a few nights ago and proudly proclaimed "I picked up a new Blu-Ray player on the cheap." I pointed out that we don't own any Blu-Ray discs nor needed a new DVD player as the old one worked fine.

20 minutes later, she asked the boys if they were ready to watch a movie....and promptly pulled out a box set of the "Die Hard" movies. Now I know why she got the Blu-Ray player.

/i think it was a blu-ray set...//not sure, was more agitated we bought something to replace nothing needed.

She probably got the Blu-Ray set from the Amazon sale a week or so ago. It was $20 for the whole thing.

Englebert Slaptyback:At least it got Timothy Olyphant into 'Hitman' and 'Justified', so we've got that going for us... which is nice. Obviously his small role in 'Rock Star' wasn't going to be very helpful.

Am I the only person who can't stand Olyphant? A buddy of mine enjoys him too and I don't see it.

YodaBlues:Englebert Slaptyback: At least it got Timothy Olyphant into 'Hitman' and 'Justified', so we've got that going for us... which is nice. Obviously his small role in 'Rock Star' wasn't going to be very helpful.

Am I the only person who can't stand Olyphant? A buddy of mine enjoys him too and I don't see it.

Die Hard 5 was awful. They didn't even attempt to make it a good movie, they simply were trying to suck money out of the franchise. I thought it would be as terrible as 4, but I never expected it to be worse. It's really a shame, because 1 & 3 remain fantastic movies, even all these years later.

The movie really lost me when Bruce Willis showed up on the screen and he wasn't named Bruce Willis, he was being called John McClane or something ridiculous. How unrealistic is that? I mean we all know his name is Bruce Willis who is he trying to fool?

Internal consistency of the fictional character's world and abilities isn't too much to ask. Dropping a body off a building and aiming well enough to hit a police car is ok. Driving a car into an embankment and aiming it well enough to fly fifty feet in the air and strike a helicopter is not.

Internal consistency of the fictional character's world and abilities isn't too much to ask. Dropping a body off a building and aiming well enough to hit a police car is ok. Driving a car into an embankment and aiming it well enough to fly fifty feet in the air and strike a helicopter is not.

This.

The way I say it to friends is: "You can have whatever rules in your fictional world you want. Any. Just *follow* them.".

DH4 did shiat that was simply stupid and didn;t fit within the world of 1-2-3.

Internal consistency of the fictional character's world and abilities isn't too much to ask. Dropping a body off a building and aiming well enough to hit a police car is ok. Driving a car into an embankment and aiming it well enough to fly fifty feet in the air and strike a helicopter is not.

That reminds me of the time, Marion drove the jeep will everybody in it off the cliff onto the tree branch, to be safely lowered into the water from Crystal Skulls.